Zuni Mai Tai

by Jonathan Morrill

Original - Sold

Price

$250

Dimensions

16.000 x 20.000 inches

Title

Zuni Mai Tai

Artist

Jonathan Morrill

Medium

Painting - Acrylic On Canvas

Description

This painting was created specifically for the 4th annual
"Monsters & Mai Tais" Art Show (10/04/15)
at the Tonga Hut in North Hollywood, California.

"Zuni Mai Tai" is based on the third installment from "Trilogy of Terror",
and here's more on that, from Wikipedia:

"Trilogy of Terror" (also known in the United States as "Tales of Terror" and "Terror of the Doll") is a made-for-television anthology horror film,
first aired as an ABC Movie of the Week on March 4, 1975.

The film, was directed by Dan Curtis, and starred Karen Black.

All three segments are based on unrelated short stories
written by Richard Matheson.
Each segment title is the name of each story's protagonist,
all played by Karen Black.

"Amelia" was filmed as a one woman play, with Karen Black as the only actor. It was also the only film of three to be adapted by its author,
Richard Matheson, who based "Amelia" on his short story, "Prey".

Amelia lives alone in a high-rise apartment building.
She returns home after shopping with a package.
Inside is a Zuni fetish doll, crafted in the form of a misshapen aboriginal warrior equipped with razor sharp teeth and a spear.
A scroll comes with the doll, claiming that the doll contains the actual spirit
of a Zuni hunter named "He Who Kills",
and that the gold chain adorning the doll keeps the spirit trapped within.
As Amelia makes a call to her mother we learn that she suffers
from her mother's overbearing behavior.
Amelia struggles to justify her independence
and attempts to cancel their plans for the evening because she has a date. The moment Amelia leaves the room, the Zuni doll's golden chain falls off without her knowing.

Later, Amelia is preparing dinner, using a carving knife.
She enters the darkened living room,
and realizes the doll is not on the coffee table.
Amelia hears a noise in the kitchen and when she investigates,
the knife is missing.
Returning to the living room, she is suddenly attacked by the doll,
which stabs at her ankles viciously.
She attempts to flee, but the doll chases her around the apartment.
In the bathroom, Amelia envelops the doll in a towel and attempts futilely
to drown it in the bathtub.
She later traps it in a suitcase, but the doll begins cutting a circular hole through the top of suitcase with the butcher knife.
After several more vicious attacks, Amelia manages to hurl it into the oven
and listens to it howling and screaming as it catches fire.
Soon the screams die down and eventually stop.
She opens the oven to ensure that the doll is "dead',
and a cloud of black smoke billows out.
Inhaling the smoke, she is suddenly overcome.

We see Amelia place another call to her mother.
In a calm, controlled voice, she apologizes for her behavior
during the previous call, and invites her mother to visit her home for dinner. She then rips the bolt from her front door and crouches down low in an animalistic manner, hiding in the corner with a carving knife.
She stabs at the floor with the weapon,
grinning and revealing the horrific teeth of the Zuni doll
whose spirit now infests her body.

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